Huh? You mean free markets didn’t cause this? But that’s not what NBC said…

After all, though the partisans of both George W. Bush and Barack Obama have muddied our view of this, the Bush years (indeed most of the American postwar experience) have been a time of constant stimulus and deficit spending, and a gradual (sometimes stop-and-start) centralization of the control of resources and decision making.

from Libertarianism in an Age of Economic Crisis – Reason Magazine.